Quotes of: Learning-disability Keyword

People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed ...

Les Misérables

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Letters and Papers from Prison

God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.

Love and Responsibility

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

Lavinia

Learn to listen when people are talking. Frist, it's a great art, and second, it's quite possible that when people say ne thing they mean another.

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

The Silence of the Lambs

Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.

Some Mistakes of Moses

Lesson learned: If you’re already resorting to writing shitty poetry (not the lovey-dovey kind) to get your guys attention within one month of meeting him, he is not the one.

Spilled Perfume: A Memoir

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

And now we who are writing women and strange monsters Still search our hearts to find the difficult answers, Still hope that we may learn to lay our hands More gently and more subtly on the burning sands.

Selected Poems

Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee.

Strong Poison

All I daresay at this point is pray on it and pray hard. Then wait and listen for God's answer. I've learned in my years of living not to be impatient for answers when I pray. They don't come lickity-split.

Son of a Preacherman

The propensity of Earthlings to get into trouble, and to learn thereby, was the reason my owners agreed to this mad venture – although no one expected such a chain of unusual calamities as befell this ship. Your talents were underrated.

Startide Rising

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

We learned the shocking truth that "home" isn't necessarily a certain spot on earth. It must be a place where you can "feel" at home, which means "free" to us.

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

The Signature of All Things

If you stay on this path as long as I have, you’ll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil’s waiting to collect his pound of flesh.

A Slave to Want

Two powerful, little words I've learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts—

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn